Emech & Enclosures

Electromechanical component distributor, Foremost Electronics, has added switching products from Elma Electronics to its linecard. These include the X4 and  MR50 rotary switches. The former is a designed for the toughest requirements, says the company, and has an optional pushbutton function. The switch incorporates a magnetic, Hall effect (contactless) sensing system for rugged, reliable, long life operation. The microcontroller-based circuitry ...

Optical firm OMC is looking to cut the cost of custom moulded backlights

Intended to establish contact between a PCB and a metallic housing, WE-SMGS from Würth Elektronik consists of an elastic temperature-resistant foam block surrounded by a tinned copper weave. They can be pick-and-placed as well as re-flow soldered to the PCB (so Wurth sees them as an alternative to WE-SECF contact fingers), and “after compression, they then return to their original shape”, ...

Balluff has introduced intelligent absolute linear position sensors. The family is called BMP and there are a variety of measurable lengths, including: 32mm (BMP0008), 128mm (BMP0002) and 256mm (BMP000J). Operating from 15 – 30Vdc, resolution is ≤1µm via IO-Link, non-linearity is typically ±250µm, repeatability ±100µm and temperature drift from the end value is ±0.3% mazzimum. There is also an analogue output ...

Aiming at micro-speakers in phones and headphones, Victrex (formerly ICI) has launched a higher-performance structural plastic film for diaphragms. “Victrex has announced the launch of an ultrathin APTIV DBX film product line,” said the firm. “The new films´ tighter thickness tolerance is designed to result in a more uniform thickness to enable laminators, speaker builders and OEMs to improve consistency ...

Prusa has announced a 3D printer with a 180 x 180 x 180mm build volume. The firm, based in Prague, has walked-the-walk for several years, using 500 of its own filament deposition printers in a farm that prints the structural plastic parts of those same printers – of which it has shipped ~130,000. As such, the larger existing design, called ...

Toshiba has a voltage driven photo relay with a tiny S-VSON4T package and reduced input power dissipation. The TLP3407SR, features a maximum LED current of just 1 mA at the input, which represents a reduction to approximately 33% of that of its predecessor, the TLP3407SRH. This allows the product to offer a maximum input power dissipation of 3.3 mW. For ...

Ventec has added two thermally-conductive thin isolation foil materials to its range of thermal interface materials under its distribution agreement with EMI Thermal. Both feature high tensile strength, designed to prevent cut through and electrical shorts, are UL94-V0 recognised and have no viscosity (see table below for characteristics). Intended applications include: PSUs, telecoms, visual devices, networking products, LCD TVs, notebook PCs, ...

Convert of Kent has designed a cable harness for a German automotive manufacturer’s all-electric sports car, recently completing pre-series development work. The next three years, according to Convert, could see is manufacturing more than 60,000 cable harness for the car, involving two million crimp connections per year and cable the length of 2,500 football pitches. “We‘ve invested in a Artos ...

Cliff is releasing its rugged cable reel as a separate part, to allow customers to create their own bespoke cable assemblies – it is usually sold loaded with one of the firm’s standard test leads. “We are a designer and manufacturer of test lead sets supplied with many well-known brands of test meters, as well as a supplier of popular brands ...